Suffering Quotes · Page 55

I always seem to suffer some loss of faith on entering cities.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.

— Herodotus

“We can't prevent suffering. This pain and that pain, yes, but not Pain.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

If Monica Lewinsky is living proof of anything, it's that suffering is good for the soul.

— Norah Vincent

Suffering well borne is better than suffering removed.

— Henry Ward Beecher

His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.

— Edmund Waller

Most works of art are, necessarily, bad...; one suffers through the many for the few.

— Randall Jarrell

The problem of suffering is not about something but about someone.

— Joni Eareckson Tada

Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse,…

— John Dryden

If a person wants to be hurt and enjoys suffering, then there is no reason not to indulge him in his wont.

— Anton Szandor LaVey

Just know what is happening in your mind - not happy or sad about it, not attached. If you suffer see it,…

— Ajahn Chah

Everyday hundreds of people came to the hospital... dying, and I have to introduce life into them again... my duty was to…

— Ala Bashir

When life is rosy, we may slide by with knowing about Jesus, with imitating him and quoting him and speaking of him.…

— Joni Eareckson Tada

Meditate, meditate, meditate. Then you will find that people suffer for no reason when there is the mine of bliss in everyone’s…

— Swami Brahmananda

Feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach…

— Pema Chodron

Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.

— Michel de Montaigne

Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against his will, whose notion of Beauty always differs from yours and whose means (strength, imagination, technique)…

— Alexander Alekhine

Personally, I had a close friend with cystic fibrosis. I won't ever forget how he handled himself. In the face of extreme…

— Max Carver

Men are not suffering from the lack of good literature, good art, good theatre, good music, but from that which has made…

— Henry Miller

“Some have a mansion prepared for them in heaven from the foundation [of the world]; others are sent away as cursed into…

— Jonathan Edwards

What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: our life is…

— Gautama Buddha

I am unable, when I turn to myself, to recognize any of my faculties or my capacities. The inner sensation which I…

— Nicolas Malebranche

The one thing I find the least romantic is taking a horse and carriage ride. I can't express enough how unhappy these…

— Lea Michele

If you are interested in preventing animal suffering, the first thing you should give up is eggs and milk because the animals…

— Cesar Chavez

God so loved us and hates suffering that he was willing to come down and get involved in it.

— Timothy Keller

... the inexorable lesson of centuries: suffering must be borne; there is no way out.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“He could stand pain, himself. He just couldn't stand hers”

— Jodi Picoult

Happiness is the cessation of suffering. Well-being.

— Nhat Hanh

Eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions god's infinite love.

— Bill Hicks

Suffer love! A good ephitet! I do suffer love indeed, for I love thee against my will.

— William Shakespeare

“Perhaps the only way to love is to bury yourself so deeply in it that you avoid its very suffering.”

— Meghna Pant

People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.

— Anonymous

Waiting Hurts. Forgetting Hurts. But not knowing which decision to take is the worst of suffering.

— Paolo Coelho

A Christian is someone who shares the sufferings of God in the world.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The more unhappy you are, the more miserable you are, the more you're going to suffer.

— Louise Hay

You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.

— Victor Hugo

You suffer because you try to fulfill yourself. You think of yourself in a limited way.

— Frederick Lenz

Often the thought of pain is actually worse that the pain itself.

— Greg Behrendt

“To leave is to suffer,to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche